'Ere, where's the elephant then?

[xoggoth]

There's another idiot online whose "proofs" that an all-knowing god must have inspired the Koran include a vague reference to "night shading into day" as proof that the author knew the world was round, as only Allah could have at the time.

Even ignoring the assumption that this was anything more than a poetic description of twilight, this readily observable fact was widely accepted in the Prophet's day, having been postulated by Archimedes a few thousand years earlier.

But hey, let's not challenge the "logic" of the religious.

[EternalOptimist]

The circumference of the earth is just over 24k miles
and its spins around in about 24 hours, so you are doing about 1k mph,

If you jump up, you will be off the ground for about half a second

= 1/7200 of an hour
1/7200 of a thousand miles is .13 of a mile or 228 yards

so the cleric is right. if you jumped up you should land somewhere near McDonalds, or maybe in the pub.

But now we have established that, it's clear that the sky is rotating around the earth. and as its much further away, it must be going twice as fast.

So this time when you jump up, the sky will grab you and drop you 450 yards away.
and anyone who goes a quarter of a mile for a McDonalds is an idiot

so the cleric is clearly wrong.

so now we are in the situation where the cleric is both right and wrong.

but he is right by 200 yards and wrong by 400 yards. Clearly two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights do make a wrong.

thank you for listening

[Halo Jones]

The circumference of the earth is just over 24k miles
and its spins around in about 24 hours, so you are doing about 1k mph......thank you for listening

Thanks for clearing that up

[SpontaneousOrder]

The circumference of the earth is just over 24k miles
and its spins around in about 24 hours, so you are doing about 1k mph,

If you jump up, you will be off the ground for about half a second

= 1/7200 of an hour
1/7200 of a thousand miles is .13 of a mile or 228 yards

so the cleric is right. if you jumped up you should land somewhere near McDonalds, or maybe in the pub.

But now we have established that, it's clear that the sky is rotating around the earth. and as its much further away, it must be going twice as fast.

So this time when you jump up, the sky will grab you and drop you 450 yards away.
and anyone who goes a quarter of a mile for a McDonalds is an idiot

so the cleric is clearly wrong.

so now we are in the situation where the cleric is both right and wrong.

but he is right by 200 yards and wrong by 400 yards. Clearly two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights do make a wrong.

thank you for listening

The cleric should test his theory by free-falling in a lift (as much as lifts can) and then jumping up just before it hits the ground to save himself from becoming raspberry jam on the floor. Then I'll believe anything he tells me.

[Gibbon]

Where's the force coming from? And if it needs a force why doesn't the earth get tired and slow down?

It is slowing down ever so slighty. They have to adjust UTC to GMT every few years. GMT is always 24 hours wrt to the Sun. UTC is wrt to the stars. A day is aprox 1.5 ms longer than a century ago.

[Uncle Albert]

It is slowing down ever so slighty. They have to adjust UTC to GMT every few years. GMT is always 24 hours wrt to the Sun. UTC is wrt to the stars. A day is aprox 1.5 ms longer than a century ago.

That explains why today feels like it's been dragging on for hours.

[Batcher]

That explains why today feels like it's been dragging on for hours.

Are we there yet?

[SantaClaus]

Confused, you will be...

[SpontaneousOrder]

It is slowing down ever so slighty. They have to adjust UTC to GMT every few years. GMT is always 24 hours wrt to the Sun. UTC is wrt to the stars. A day is aprox 1.5 ms longer than a century ago.

That's due to gravity of other celestial bodies, which I don't think is what he was getting at.

[VectraMan]

Aren't there four elephants on top of a giant turtle? I'm sure I was taught that in O-level physics.